Blast From The Past 133 – eXplaining Never The Bride

Welcome to episode 133 of Blast From The Past. On this episode, Erk & Judy are back in the studio together after Erk’s massive trip to Europe. However, there’s no time to talk about the trip this week because there is a visitor to the Channel Erk studio who wants to talk music with us. At the end of the Queen’s Birthday holiday, Erk was banging on via Twitter about how long it was taking him to get out of the local Westiefield carpark at the end of the shopping day.

Today’s visitor from Adelaide tweeted Erk & told him that she would send him a Never The BrideCD to help him during his next traffic jam.True to her word, Rachel did indeed send Erk the CD & Never The Bride have been featured across Channel Erk. During Erk’s recent trip to Europe, Erk was lucky enough to see Never The Bride live & even got invited on stage. It was an awesome night of music.So why is Rachel in town & in the Channel Erk studio? Well, she wants to welcome Erk back to the country after his epic trip.

Part of the welcome back included going to a metal gig (Rachel’s first – she volunteered!) to see a few bands including Foundry Road. During this episode, we talk about Erk’s Never The Bride experience, Rachel’s first metal gig & her reaction as well as some local music that we introduced to her including Foundry Road, Amodus, LAB 64, Emma Dean, Fronz Arp, Kristian Jackson & more.

Question: What does a Foundry Road virgin say after a gig? Answer: WWWWWWWHHHHHHAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTT?

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Welcome to episode 333 of Erk FM: International. Erk is back from his trip to the US & his cruise on 70000 Tons Of Metal. Back in the studio after spending March on trip related content, here is a small sample of music that Erk got to see live on the trip. Of course, if Erk did not have a metal podcast, this episode could be filled with metal. But because he does have a metal podcast, most of that metal will not be heard here but on Erk FM: Metal Monday.

An early highlight of Erk’s trip was to New Orleans, arguably the jazz capital of the world. Regardless of if you are on world famous (or infamous?) Bourbon Street, Frenchman Street or one of the many side streets in the French Quarter, there is always plenty of music to catch up with.

The first band Erk caught, he found playing in one of many clubs on Frenchman Street. Dominck Grillo & The Frenchmen St All Stars are aptly named as a result. The second band on the episode were one of many quality buskers that Erk found in & around Bourbon Street. While they might have been busking at the time, it is a good way to practice, expose themselves to new audiences, earn some extra coin & also sell some CDs. This is exactly what Erk found with The Smoking Jazz Club. Unfortunately, Erk could not find a website for either band.

The next stop on this episode (but not on Erk’s real life travel plans) was New York. While Erk was cruising around the New York subway, he met another person busking, Arlethia. Grabbing a quick chat in between songs, the subway crowds won’t wait for me to stop talking, they will be walking.

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